If you are at a loose end on Sunday and feel like a day out in London, please come along to the free Soapbox Science event by the Thames at Gabriel’s Wharf (between Southbank Centre and Tate Modern). From 12-3 … Continue reading →

By Chris Merchant “Surface temperature” might seem to be a straightforward concept at first, but look more carefully, and things soon become rather complex. The temperatures quoted in the weather forecast are intended to represent the air temperature a metre … Continue reading →

By Rob Thompson Weather radar is a powerful tool for rainfall measurement. Raingauges measure rainfall at a site, but a weather radar can provide coverage over a wide area, up to 250 km from the radar site. The UK radar … Continue reading →

By Emma Irvine “How can we fly without damaging the environment?” The 2014 Longitude Prize acknowledges environmentally-friendly flight as being one of the great challenges of our time. The dream of zero-carbon flight is highly ambitious and, Longitude Prize or … Continue reading →

By David Ferreira From meteorological considerations, one would expect that, in a global warming world, the Antarctic Ice Sheet would grow. With higher temperatures, air parcels can hold more water. This effect would increase the amount of moisture delivered to Antarctica … Continue reading →